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Do economic resources play a role in bargaining child care in couples? Parental investment in cases of matching and mismatching gender ideologies in Germany

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Pages 785-815 | Received 31 Mar 2017, Accepted 08 Nov 2017, Published online: 07 Jun 2018

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